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I can already tell that their group dynamic is going to be very funny
#mario movie#spoilers#mario#princess peach#toad#why does peach grab mario by this mouth ????? sjfhffdkjfdjk#also i'm kind of getting the impression that mario and peach wanted to go alone#like maybe they're not in love yet but they have developing crushes alreafy#and then toad just kind of inserts himself into the group sjifkhfkjfvk#they'll become found family eventually of course#anyway i hope they're all very chaotic together#also sorry for the typos in the tags#i'm too lazy to retype them#*his#*already
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I need to stop writing novels in tags and start writing actual posts instead ffs
#might write a post about the ins and outs of snake's relationship with ocelot and kaz and why they're disastrous#we'll see how lazy i am to retype everything and whether or not i'll grew to hate it or not lmao#i'm sorry to the people who have to suffer my tags#do you remember those tumblr days when tags weren't as public as they are now because i do and i miss them XD#i mean i could just write posts but that feels too official unlike tags you know what i mean?#mine
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here's part two if y'all wanna read....
see, one thing that's incredibly special about the byers brothers' bond is that despite both of them feeling deeply guilty there has never been any sort of resentment between them. i've talked about this before, but the only person jonathan resents is himself for not being there for his brother. and this will only be amplified tenfold once he realizes that will is feeling just as guilty as he is and is blaming himself for all of the horrific things that have happened to him, because how could his baby brother feel this way about things that he had no control over? how could will ever think to blame himself when really, it's jonathan's fault that everything happened to will?
and now that jonathan is fully sober and is allowing himself to think instead of burying his problems with weed, he's going to spiral down a path of self-loathing again, and ask himself — what if he had stayed at home like he'd been told to do so on the day that will got kidnapped, instead of ignoring his mother's wishes for him to not work late. would will have been safe? would he have gotten home that night unharmed, instead of being dragged to a hellish alternate dimension, cold and scared and all alone, being forced to fend for himself against something that he stood no chance against?
what if he hadn't been so lenient with will on halloween? what if, when will was once again transported back to the place that his nightmares called home, jonathan had been there to save him and help him after he got back? would jonathan have been told about the mind flayer? would he have been able to make the decision to stay with will during that crucial week and protect him from being possessed, instead of leaving with nancy when will needed him most? if he'd stayed, could he have maybe broken will out of his possession sooner? would he have been able to prevent all of the destruction, devastation, and death that followed?
and what if, when nancy warned him about everything she'd noticed about mrs. driscoll, he'd listened to her? what if he'd put aside his problems and he'd paid a little more attention to her observations instead of simply thinking about himself and his priorities? would they have been able to prevent the mind flayer's return? would thirty innocent people in his hometown have been spared? would he not have needed to plan the funeral of yet another person that his mother had loved? would his brother have gotten to stay in the only place he's ever called home, instead of being uprooted and torn away from the people he loves most?
what if jonathan hadn't distanced himself from his family in california? what if he hadn't been so desperate to hide from the inevitability of his downfall? would he have picked up on will's heartache sooner? in a way, he'd known -- he'd always known this fundamental fact about his brother. but somewhere along the way, 'because you're my best friend' & 'you shouldn't like things because people tell you to' turned into the sound of silence between them on the way to school or a noncommittal goodbye before he ran to get lost in a haze of smoke, and he'd missed every single bit of his own brother's heartbreak. what if he'd talked to will sooner? would will have felt comfortable sharing his feelings with him? would will have been able to escape that tight, suffocating closet that he'd been shoved into for all of his life? if jonathan had done a better job of reminding him, would will have known sooner that there was someone on his side, and would he have maybe not felt so alone?
and most of all, what if, when jonathan was younger, he'd tried a little harder to be the perfect son that his abusive father so desperately wanted? he may not have wanted or needed his father's approval, and he may fully recognize lonnie for the piece of shit that he is, but maybe if he'd given in to what he sees as his own personal nightmare, maybe if he'd molded himself into what lonnie clearly wanted to see and what he thinks is fated for his future, then maybe lonnie would have left will alone instead of trying to indoctrinate him, and maybe, just maybe, he wouldn't have had to sit through his baby brother, his best friend and the most important person in his life, breaking down into tears as he described how for so much of his life, he's felt like a mistake.
what if, what if, what if?
what if jonathan had just done more. would will be happy?
i am not ready for will to find out about jonathan choosing not to go to college because of the overwhelming sense of obligation that he feels toward his family. jonathan is going to break down and confess to will that he's been lying to their family for months about applying to emerson, and will is going to be so, so heartbroken and feel so guilty, and given his knee-jerk tendency to put all of the blame on himself every time something bad happens, even when he hasn’t done anything wrong, he’s going to feel like it’s his fault that jonathan feels the need to stay, and he is going to be so fucked up over it.
everything is going to come rushing back to him, all the trauma that he's tried so hard to suppress over the last three years, and he’s going to wonder — what if he'd done something differently on the night he got taken? would jonathan have been free from looking after him and hovering over him for a whole year when he returned? would his brother and mother have been able to live a normal, stress-free life instead of constantly worrying about will? would his friends be able to see him out of their homes without standing at their front porches for those extra minutes, waiting for jonathan or his mother to dutifully come pick him up?
what if, when he got possessed, he’d fought the mind flayer a little harder? would the hundreds of workers at hawkins lab still be here? would bob still be here? would his mother have spent the next few months after november of 84' smiling and laughing, happy and in love, instead of spending long, sleepless nights crying silently in the dead of night when she thinks no one can hear her, and mindlessly staring at a drawing tacked up on the kitchen fridge, as if one measly piece of paper could ever be enough for will to repay her after taking away someone that she had loved so dearly?
what if, when he'd first sensed the signs of the mind flayer's return, he'd been more vigilant about it and picked up what they meant a bit quicker? would hopper still be here? would his family have stayed in hawkins, and would would one of his longtime parental figures be pardoned the suffering of being a prisoner for eight long months? would his sister still have her father, and would his mother been spared the pain of losing yet another chance at love?
and what about jonathan? would he have been able to be free for once, unburdened by the responsibility that was thrust on him after their father left because of will? would he have been able to relax, knowing that their family had a real paternal figure and knowing that his mother finally had someone to share her struggles with instead of leaving them to a seventeen year old boy? would jonathan still have nancy to rely on instead of turning to weed to cope and drowning in his own expectations of having to be there for his family instead of doing anything for himself? would jonathan be happy?
what if, what if, what if?
#i think the only correct resolution to this endless cycle of guilt and shame is for both of them to do some reflection#and see that they're BOTH blaming themselves for things that were not their fault and they're both putting undue pressure on themselves#also yes i KNOW jonathan helped plan hop's funeral. sorry to joyce but i would not be surprised if that was jonathan's responsibility#also denise i'm sorry i am just realizing now that i reblogged this from you and not my own blog#i am way too lazy to retype everything so i guess you get my extra commentary in your notifs RIP#best brothers !!#sr#meta
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Maybe I need to get into pet sitting. How much do you think a licensed CVT gets as a pet sitter
#my coworker was like 'i'll feed your cats while you're gone 20 bucks a day per cat'#and like i RESPECT that's a standard pet sitting wage but#2. u already told me you'll be in the area pet sitting for someone else as well#3. (most importantly?) ma'am we work the same position and you're on the shift with a $6 differential. YOU KNOW HOW MUCH I (DON'T) MAKE#THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS TO FEED MY CATS#anyways the next person who offered is our hr director which is absolutely hilarious to me#wait what the fuck my tag got erased#i'm too lazy to retype all this shit#1. Twenty dollars A DAY to feed my 3 cats that is like 10 minutes of your time maybe twenty if you stick around to love on them after
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I COMPLETELY FOR GOT ABOUT THIS DRAWING😭
This trend is probably dead by now lmao I drew this back in September
THE FOOTCLAN SOLDIER IS @xxandyleedoomsdayxx 'S OC
Here's the original photo
And now for the sketches that I promised!
These were supposed to be for a face expression practice thingy but obviously I didn't even get to the others just Donnie😭
This was a drawing that I started of my au human designs together but I never got around to finishing it :/
And lastly here are some unfinished future designs concepts for my TMNT au! These were supposed to be for the last day of the tmntember prompts but I lost motivation to work on them so only Leo is "finished" but I did start Donnie
I'm so sorry if my handwriting is hard to read on Donnie's I'm too lazy to retype that all
#tmnt doomsday au#tmnt au#tmnt#tmnt 2012#teenage mutant ninja turtles 2012#teenage mutant ninja turtles#tmnt 2012 au#tmnt sketch#do you like stars#do you like stars meme
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Fields of Mistria Birthday Approximations
Still in an art rut so I calculated all their birthdays on the Gregorian Calendar under the read more for those that like to draw their favorite characters on their birthdays.
edit: compressed into a single image
Also the math isn't perfect so I will list all the flaws in the data and my own calculations at the end but I am pretty confident in what I have managed to achieve so far. The fat chunk of text at the end is by no means required reading but may answer some questions that may arise.
edit: sorry forgot abt Adeline. Shes Jan 26
Jan 1-3 Errol 7-10 Darcy*
Feb 9-11 Hemlock March 11-13 Ryis 31 - Olric
April 1-2 Olric 19-21 March
May 5-8 Luc*
June 4-6 Elsie 17-19 Vera
July 7-9 Balor 13-15 Celine 19-21 Josephine
August 1-3 Eiland 14-16 Nora 21-23 Maple 30-31 Valen*
September 1-2 Valen* 9-11 Landen 16-18 Merri
October 5-7 Reina 12-14 Holt 18-20 Dozy 31 Louis
November 1-2 Louis 7-9 Teritha 20-22 Juniper
December 6-8 Dell 19-21 Henrietta 22-24 Hayden
*The middle date of the range is my assumed option. (i.e Reina is October 5-7 so I'll just assume Oct 6) *This is based on the Northern Hemisphere since it snows in Mistria. Spring 1 translated to our calendar would be equivalent to March 1-4. *There was an extra day that could not be equally distributed so I picked a day that would be ultimately inconsequential. (Feb. 28/Winter 28) Aside from the estimated dates, putting it anywhere else only makes it so Henrietta has one day in Capricorn. and changes the bullet point above. *Darcy, Luc, and Valen have four days while everyone has three bc 365/112 produces a decimal value (3.26) so I evenly distributed an additional day to every 1st, 5th, 9th, 13th, 17th, 21st, and 25th day. >>This decision was unfortunately subjective. As opposed to doing the 4th, 8th, 12th, 16th, 20th, 24th, & 28th which would have affected the following: >>>Vastly increased the list of 4 day estimates to Ryis, March, Balor, Josephine, Eiland, Nora, Landen, Reina, Dozy, Louis, and Hayden. This puts too much guess work on a "center" day >>>Everyone's estimated dates are effectively shifted by -1. >>>March Would still be either an Aries or Taurus without a skew towards either, Maple would be a pure Leo, Juniper would be a pure Scorpio, and Hayden would have one day in Capricorn. >>>Had this been the decision, I would have probably put the extra day into March 1st/Spring 1 purely because the thought to do the days divisible by 4 was an afterthought and I'm too lazy to retype all the numbers and putting the extra day on Spring 1 just realigns everyone with the data presented above.
Thank you for reading!
p.s. if someone can get me Caldarus' birthday bc I have seen that screenshot where he tells you that it is his birthday but it does not show the in-game UI so the date is not visible. There's a random gaming article that lists it as Spring 25(May18-20 Taurus) but I do not trust any of them to do their jobs right honestly.
#fields of mistria#sorry everyone who followed me for art but i'm secretly a statistics nerd so i jump at the chance to use Excel spreadsheets#lazarambles#I do fear this might have come off as a little bit insane#fombirthdays
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Signal Lost
I've had something happen to me that's so incredible and that I could have never hoped, something so touching and so unbelievable that it made me rethink a whole lot of stuff: a wonderful reader on Ao3 started reading my long-form fic (101k words!!!) and commented basically every chapter after a certain point. And wow, I would have never thought something like this might happen.
And yeah, it is my first fic with plot in it, yeah I will never believe it to be perfect, but it's good enough. And receiving all those emails from Ao3 really was the highlight of my days over the course of which I saw said reader slowly go through all my favorite parts!
And so I wish to give it some spotlight here, while I'm finishing up my school year and work and whatever! I will post this here for now, but I will drop chapters every few days and make a Masterlist for it this weekend. (nvm I don't have the energy to do this any time soon lmao) I have too many loose ideas in my head so this is just to pass the time till the brain worms wiggle all in the same direction
So without further ado:
Link to AO3 here : Signal Lost - a John Price x reader fic
----- here's a blurb to pique your interest!
“I don’t think I’ve ever received a document as classified as this one. What am I supposed to do with it, Kate?” he says, dragging his thumb across the pile of papers, each file filled with more ink than the last.
“You asked for proof, there’s your proof,” Laswell says.
“You said you’ll bring someone competent, and who can help us, this doesn’t tell me shit.” He stares blankly at the screen, tired. She stares back.
“The Captain specifically asked to keep this under wraps.”
He rubs at his face, scratching at his beard. It’s getting long again.
“Who is he, anyway?”
“I can’t tell you that.”
He groans again, picking up the file on top. No photo, no name, no age, no height, weight, no nothing . And he thought Simon was secretive.
“What can you tell me?”
“It’s the closest we’ve ever gotten to him. Did things a particular way.”
He shifts through the papers. “And the discharge?”
“Left after the entire team got wiped out. Messy stuff.”
“That why he doesn’t show his face?” He bends forward, grabbing the cigar from the ashtray and bringing it to his lips.
“John.” Her voice carries a heavy warning.
“Just sayin’,” he says, biting around the cigar with one side of the mouth. “What kinda captain doesn’t go down with his men?”
“Got enough guilt as is. You’re lucky I convinced them.”
They both remain silent. They know the missions would be a slippery slope. One wrong move and a war is started. He puffs a cloud of smoke.
“Anything else?” John asks.
Kate looks to the side, her face illuminated by another screen. He can see her hesitate, her lips are pursed in a thin line as if she’s debating her options.
“You’ve worked together before.”
His face lights up. “Finally! Who?”
Her face immediately hardens back up. “Can’t tell, John, my hands are tied.” She sighs. “You were still a Lieutenant.”
Years ago then. He mentally catalogs everyone he’s ever worked with, but he knows that at that age, he was throwing himself at every available mission, wanting to make a name for himself. “So an old fart then? How’s that gonna help us?” If the guy was a Captain when he was still a Lieutenant, and he felt himself grow old, he can’t imagine who Laswell is bringing back from the dead.
Laswell’s face distorts, he knows he’s pushing her buttons, but he has to know.
“Not older than you John.”
His eyebrows raise. “Oh?”
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returning to the military to hunt Makarov is hard enough, to do it with your past lover is even harder. a "friends to lovers to enemies to friends and back to lovers" story
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Tags and other CW: will be posted for each chapter containing warnings for more hardcore stuff (i.e., torture and angst namely), but this is a fanfic, with smut, so if you want all the tags feel free to check the ao3 link bc there are a LOT and I am lazy to retype them all here
#cc writes#141#tf 141#call of duty#ghost#soap#gaz#price#john price#price x reader#captain john price x reader#captain john price#reader insert#fanfiction#john soap mactavish#simon ghost riley#kyle gaz garrick#ghost is kinda a softie in this one#price is a bit of an asshole at the beginning but you'll see i dont wanna spoil anything#reader is badass but has issues lmao thats the only way i can describe it#you can see when my writing style sort of improves so don't compare it to my most recent stuff lmao#anyway enjoy
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Screenshotting these messages of mine from discord because I'm too lazy to retype all of this. They're from earlier this month, but I forgot about them for a little bit until I stumbled across something that reminded me that this was a thought/theory I had, regarding what's going on with Moon
About today's episode and New Moon hallucinating Old Moon,, yeah, I have no idea. That kinda sorta makes my brain circle back to this, since Old Moon is still a part of him. Why would New Moon hallucinate something that's a part of him, as opposed to Solar, the person who died that he's going insane trying to get back??
#tsams#sun and moon show#the sun and moon show#tsams spoilers#sams spoilers#kinda sorta???#tagging jic#sams moon#tsams moon#sun and moon show moon#the sun and moon show moon
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Taking the Nuzi Kids Hungergames as my sign to post these all together
Intertwining/Intertwined Codes Timeline Kids - this may contain spoilers for the kids if I ever get motivation to revamp the joke fic
Feel free to ask me stuff about them, I'm too lazy to actually type out all info about them in this >.>
Rexim & Orita (twins)
You can find info on the twins in this post
I don't want to retype or copy paste all that lol.
Their Teen Designs are like 16ish! Their Child Designs like 4-6!
Zagi & Raven
They are like a day apart in age. They didn't know about Ravens existence until the day their programming finished developing, meanwhile Zagi was built and programmed using the regular canonverse USB method.
They're both about 5 years old :3
Annika
They technically knew her since she was a young kid but didn't adopt her until her pre teens. I haven't really made a younger design for her bc it wouldn't be much different aside from her joint count lol.
She's like 16-17 here (yes she's older than the twins!)
I might redesign her bc I feel her fit is too basic and doesn't reflect her age properly :" but I absolutely HATE my current attempt at it so we sticking with it
Olivia & Ray
And last but not least, the newest family addition (despite coming up with Raven after them, these two were adopted after Raven and Zagi booted up!)
Olivia is a similar age to Raven & Zagi, maybe a few months younger. But she tries to act more mature than them most of the time (trauma response).
Not much to say about Ray. That's a baby. Idk if I'll ever give him a body design. If I do then probably alongside doing a redesign for Annika!
Timeline of Events
Between Ep 4 & 5; The twins programs develop and are put into their pill baby bodies
Ep 5; Technically when the incident that causes Ravens program to develop happens, but Ravens program does NOT develop yet
Post-Canon;
The twins get their first bodies, after a good while Nuzi discuss adoption & start bonding with a still young child Annika to build trust.
Rexim is established to be unable to balance on worker legs so Uzi builds him legs based on Ns to give him more surface to balance on
Annika is adopted around the same time Zagi is being built (making Ann like 11-13 then). The twins get their teen bodies. Ravens program starts developing
Orita builds herself DD arms, Rexims main camera breaks
Zagi is finished, they find out about Ravens System. They still kept both twins pill shells so they upload Raven to the second one.
Zagi & Raven get their bodies.
Nuzi are on a mission to do some stuff with Outpost 06, only to run into Olivia and Ray who are being attacked by a different DD team. They intervene and whilst the other DDs give N an ear full for "crossing territory" Uzi gets the kids away and to safety. Later N reunites with them and they find out what happened to the kids parents and to outpost 06.
They take them back to outpost 03 to keep them safe, the orphanage wing is basically too full so the siblings kinda get shuffled around between Nuzi, Khan & Thad (Olivia is terrified of N and some of the other Nuzi kids so it's a mess)
Ray gets attached to Nuzi, its unhealthy for a baby to be separated from attached adults & he already lost his code parents. So now the siblings kinda just have to stick with Nuzi. (Accidental adoption lol)
#murder drones#nuzi#biscuitbites#nuzi fankid#Oc: Orita Doorman Elliot#Oc: Rexim Doorman Elliot#Oc: Zagi Doorman Elliot#Oc: Raven Doorman Elliot#Oc: Annika Doorman Elliot#Oc: Olivia Doorman Elliot#Oc: Ray Doorman Elliot#Oc: Orita Doorman#Oc: Rexim Doorman#Oc: Zagi Doorman#Oc: Raven Doorman#Oc: Annika Doorman#Oc: Olivia Doorman#Oc: Ray Doorman#Intertwining Codes#Intertwined Codes#Eyestrain#eyestrain cw#md ocs#murder drones oc#references#idk what orher fashions are here ngl#next gen au#souls art
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I NEED TO WRITE THEM FUCKING NASTY <- GUY WHo sorry i just realised caps lock was on and i'm too lazy to retype that. anyway, guy who is currently writing another Them fucking nasty voice. or whatever
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UH new oc ig. As of yet unnamed! Oc for the shoreside mirages bc im criiiiinge but I'm FREEEEEE RAAAAGHH
She/they/he? Maybe. Leaning toward might be bigender
Oh baby girl your deep eyebags and barely noticeable tremor have captivated me...
Details abt her and John's relationship beneath cut so I don't keep the post too long
Just screenshotted messages abt them so I don't have to retype bc im lazy
#shut the fuck up mysterious#HHHH#the only one my arms will hold#sure.#the shoreside mirages#SURE. ILL TAG IT.
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flf reactions chapters 10-15
i'm gonna do a genius thing where i actually type my reactions on tumblr instead of doing it all on my goddamn notes app in my phone and then painstakingly having to retype them because i'm too lazy to copy and paste and send to my other email. and then be so scared of the task that i procrastinate the fuck out of it and end up taking over a week just to read 5 chapters from the paralysation. slay. spoilers ahead
rosalind is just like me fr i too like to slam imperialism
JULIETTE MENTIONED!!!!
lost couple from the city??? celia and oliver EZ PZ - OMG I WAS RIGHT
i adore ah dou. what are the odds he knows everything
ORION YAY nvm it's the inferior hong brother oliver
silas is so real for his shit sleep schedule he's just like me fr
oliver can stitch a hem?? i was about to call him a malewife for that before remembering he's a commie lmao
awww we got silas' and the priest's meet cute. adorable
i'm laughing at the dramatic irony. poor oblivious silas. i love him and i love phoebe
awww poor orion and his mommy issues. it's interesting to hear them from silas' perspective as a perfectly loved and cared for boy
AYO SILAS??? honestly they wouldn't be besties if one didn't question whether or not he had feelings for the other skfjnhsd
what i'm saying is orion is the rizzler
#foul heart huntsman#fhh#foul heart huntsman spoilers#fhh spoilers#rosalind lang#juliette mai#celia lang#oliver hong#orion hong#silas wu#philas#phoebe hong#secret shanghai#chloe gong
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YOUR COLORS ARE SO INCREDIBLE I love seeing your work pop up
do you have any tips for making everything work together in a big scene? The color struggle is real ;-;
thank you for the kind words!! ;w;
re:tips for colouring a big scene...tbh i don't often draw big scenes with a lot of characters, in a big part due to laziness 😅 so i'm not sure if i can really give useful tips. but i'll try to share a bit of what i cheat do for digital art! also thanks tumblr for deleting all my paragraphs after i spent time typing them up making me retype them 😑 HATE this new post editor
(and for anyone who isn't sick of my recommending it yet, adding in my regular periodic recommendation for the book 'colour and light' by james gurney, really great insights on colour use for painting 😊)
1) shade/highlight using the same colours
ok this is a bit of a useless 'duh' tip, but usually this step is already a big part of unifying everyone's colours! with reference to this previous ask answer where i outlined my rough colouring process before rendering.
before (flat base colours):
after adding shading:
2) contrast of background vs foreground elements
so a standard principle is to have higher contrast on the elements you want to draw attention to (usually the foreground elements, but depends). so a quick way i use to lower the contrast of background elements is using the "lighten" layer mode, with a brush colour that's lighter than the shadows but darker than the highlights on the object i'm painting on.
so here i roughly used a soft round brush with dark blue colour, on a "lighten" layer on the elements in the distance, as well as slightly increase the contrast of the foreground elements with a curves layer.
there are also cases where you have to lower the contrast of foreground elements instead, and where "darken" layer mode might work better (using the opposite pattern, so a colour that's lighter than the shadows but darker than the highlights).
3) "colour" or "overlay" layer mode with gradient map/colour fill layer
which one to use depends on what you need for your current piece, but anyway these are some ways for me to quickly adjust the overall colour of a piece if i find it's not as focused as i want it. feel free to play with other layer modes too!
a) example: gradient map layer
colour layer mode at 30% opacity:
b) example: colour fill/gradient layer
overlay layer mode at 50% opacity:
#how do people use this new text editor? wtf is a block and why does my readmore change position every time i edit the post#replies#belbelye
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Thanks for the tag @somethingclevermahogony!
Find the Word Tag
My words: rough, spice, fix, and nature
(I couldn't find spice in the draft of HO I'm working on, so I had to grab a snippet from MG lol)
(Edit: I see now that those were your words, @somethingclevermahogony, not mine. Aw well, I'll blame the dyslexia. Im too lazy to retype all this, so I'll leave it as is. I got one of them in there at least)
Your words: design, radient, fish, faith
I'll tag @ryns-ramblings @deanwax @carrotsinnovember and @bard-coded!
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While Sepo had been focused on the broken base of the stone, he had completely neglected to examine the upper part. All of the stones were carved with intricate designs matching the thorny motifs of the arrows that had led them here. From what he could make out, the detail was impeccable; it must've taken a master mason decades to achieve such artistry. However, the patterns were now nearly unreadable due to the rough, four-pointed stars scratched over every inch of the thing.
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Again, she spun the barrel of her new gun and got into position to watch the battle unfold. Perhaps, for the second time in her life, her stepdaughter would swoop in to fix everything. Perhaps not. Either way, Oyanna was ready.
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Mierka was a Yewbury staple and, in Astra's opinion, one of the best things to come out of the gods-forsaken city since the invention of the microscope. It was a sort of flakey dumpling filled with all manner of fruits and spices, tapioca binding the whole thing together. Scholars, lords, and errand boys alike ate mierka on their way to work; it was the perfect food to eat while busy.
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Bi'em nodded hesitantly. "The pattern is pretty scattershot, so it took me longer than I would've liked, but I was originally built as a code breaker, so these things are second nature."
"A code breaker...." Twenari cocked her head. "In the Dwarven Alliance?"
The robot nodded again. "Privately owned. I lived there for years before I gained sentience. And I see that look in your eyes, young Miss Devaris. Don't bother. No one knows how mechanical sentience comes to be, least of all us who experience it."
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💛 if you're still doing the ask game?
💛 What is the most impactful lesson you’ve learned about writing?
Oh. HUM. So I'd like to preface this by saying a lot of style 'rules' about writing are not hard rules. There are things that are helpful to know and keep in mind but don't let someone else's 'rule', that is really just a stylistic thing, be a commandment to you.
(THAT SAID for the love of everything, please follow some formatting so that your writing is legible to your audience. Who really knows how commas work, but please use paragraphs with either an enter between them or an indent and such not.)
ALL THAT SAID I suppose I have two three answers, though one is art of writing, one is style, and one more about the process.
Deadlines are sanity saving. Having an update schedule is the way that I get long fics done. I love and appreciate people telling me to look after myself and my health, but also I've been ill for the last 20+ years. Having a deadline really helps give me something to move to! This is why I try to update LBFD at least bi-weekly.
Retyping everything in a new document allows you to ruthlessly edit. This is tedious, I won't lie. I've been called mad for it. But I know it's made me a better writer. It's easy to be too precious or lazy about changing something in editing. If I'm retyping it all anyways, there's no more effort to changing a sentence around to something stronger.
Sentences rarely have to be that long. This 100% a stylistic thing, and it's something that has changed for me as I've written more. It's really, really easy to want to make sentences conjunctions and with lots of parts, but that slows down the pacing of the story. Which sometimes you want. But for most of what you write, the sentences just don't need to be that long. Especially if you're writing action scenes or something getting caught up in their thoughts. Breaking the sentence up helps with rhythm and cadence. I had to train myself out of using as many compound sentences in my writing.
His arm dropped down to hang limply at his side, but he didn’t take his finger off the trigger because he shouldn’t trust this stranger.
Feels a little meandering and doesn't give the reader a chance to pause. I want to show the character is loosing his focus from an injury also.
His arm dropped down to hang limply at his side. He didn’t take his finger off the trigger. He shouldn’t trust this stranger.
That has beat. beat. beat. There's cadence to it that emphasizes each thought as the character struggles to get there. Esp the last sentence makes it a POINT that he shouldn't trust this stranger.
Anways, woops- that got rambling!
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Hello! We now know how Inha's verbs, nouns and adjectives inflect, but there are other things that change depending on the variant and that you haven't revealed yet, the pronouns, can you show them to us, please? Also, I've recently watched "Return to Oz" and I thought you might like it more than the other Oz adaptations, as it's truer to the books, have you tried it?
I would disagree on the faithfulness of Return to Oz. If anything, it was a spiritual prequel to Emerald City. It was, I think, the first "dark" Oz work, which...eh. Honestly, the only "dark" one of those adaptations I ever got down with was American McGee's Alice.
Regarding the pronouns, I'm way too lazy to retype all that, so...
And here's a copy and paste of the note I have at the bottom:
Note: When a witch includes a non-witch in a conversation and uses "we", they do not use inha, instead using nan (or ii or he or aa) plus a second person pronoun (singular or plural, plus whatever element they belong to). Also, the epenthetic consonants for the Fire and Water pronouns are used when an identical vowel follows the pronoun. All Stone pronouns alternate between a geminate and non-geminate stem, e.g. sanan vs. sann-. Also, all possessive forms carry the epenthetic (t) on the end. The possessive reflexive forms render meanings like "my own" or "our own", etc. Also, for a fourth person pronoun, a witch will use the opposite pronoun. The opposites are as follows: Fire <-→ Water; Stone <-→ Wind.
May this serve you well!
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